The Missouri Compromise, enacted in 1820, aimed to maintain the balance of power between free and slave states in the United States as the nation expanded westward. It allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state while Maine was admitted as a free state, thus keeping the Senate evenly divided. Additionally, it established a boundary line at 36°30' north latitude, north of which slavery would be prohibited in future states. This compromise sought to reduce tensions between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions, though it ultimately proved to be a temporary solution.
To settle the 1876 presidential election
To end an argument about slavery in the territories (apex)
The purpose of the Three-Fifths Compromise was so Northern and Southern states would accept the US Constitution. This is because Southern states wanted slaves to be counted towards their population so they would have more power in the House of Representatives, while Northern states did not want this. The Three-Fifths Compromise was basically meant to be a sort of compromise for each side, where three-fifths of the slave population would be counted, hence the name.
Three fifts compromise
They made the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
The purpose of the Missouri compromise is that it kept the number of slave stats and the number of free stats equal.
The Three-Fifths Compromise
to end an agruement about the territories
To settle the 1876 presidential election
to increase the power of the southern states in congress.
Henry Clay's primary purpose in offering the compromise of 1850 was to keep the Union together.
to increase the power of the southern states in congress.
to increase the power of the southern states in congress.
To assure southerners that the government wouldn't interfere with the rights of slaveholders.
To settle the 1876 presidential election
Missouri would be admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
To end an argument about slavery in the territories (apex)